Saturday, January 31, 2015

Habits Die Hard


It is really hard to lower ourselves from an elevated level of spending once we grow used to it.



Monday, January 19, 2015

There Is A Reason

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Tom Hanks

Persuasion


People who don't have the power or authority from their job title have to find other ways to exert power.


From To Sell Is Human by 
Daniel H. Pink



Sunday, January 18, 2015

Just Do It


In the end, it is not failing that is painful, it is not having tried!

Elias A. Zerhouni. M.D.

Ambition & Competitiveness


A healthy dose of ambition and competitiveness is good for pushing ourselves forward. But too much can blind us.


Sunday, January 11, 2015

More Options


Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.


Milton Berle

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Right Direction


When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. 


Henry Ford

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Greater Fool


It's perfectly all right to pay three times what something is wroth as long as later on you can find some innocent to pay five times what it's worth.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Short Term Solutions


Improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

The Price


Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.

Harry Browne

Worth



Res tantum valet quantum vendi potest.

A thing is worth only what someone else will pay for it.


Lessons



If we did not learn the lessons of the past, we would be doomed to repeat the same errors.